CHAUNG THA, Burma - He disappeared when he was 12 years old, a skinny boy named Min Thu from the wrong side of town who thought he'd stumbled onto the golden ticket. It began one afternoon when a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burma Sahib is Paul Theroux's 30th novel - Hamish Hamilton Theroux’s Orwell, 19 years old when the book begins, is a more likeable ...

Kumar is an executive editor at TIME. Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Burma take shelter at the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Dec. 5 2016 Rohingya Muslims ...

More than 3,000 people have now died from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Burma last week, which destroyed thousands of buildings and sent the war-torn country into a deeper humanitarian ...

Burma's military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, ...

Abuses against religious freedom have reached crisis proportions in Burma (aka Myanmar), where Rohingya Muslims and Christians are suffering terribly despite the country's small steps toward democracy ...

Charles Richards, who has died aged 104, was one of the last surviving Chindits to have taken part in Operation Thursday, the second deep penetration expedition into Burma.

RANGOON, Burma — President Obama and Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi called Friday for further moves toward democracy ahead of the country's presidential elections next year. The two leaders ...